in Control and Dynamical Systems and a PhD in Physics from the California Institute of Technology. in Statistics from Stanford University, and an M.S. in Mathematics from the University of Southern California, an M.S.
Maguire spent two years working at DARPA, through which he deployed to Afghanistan and was part of a team that earned a Joint Meritorious Unit Award from the United States' Secretary of Defense. He was also a Co-Founder of Escape Dynamics, Inc. Prior to joining GV, he was a Co-Founder and Chairman at Expanse (formerly known as Qadium), a cybersecurity company based in San Francisco that was acquired by Palo Alto Networks (PANW) for over $800M. Maguire was a Partner at GV, where he led their investments in Stripe, Opendoor, IonQ, Spinlaunch, Lambda School, Dandelion Energy, Clutter and Mode, and sourced their investment in Segment. He is a Director of AMP Robotics, Gather, Knowde, Physna and Vise. Shaun Maguire is a Partner at Sequoia Capital, a venture capital firm that helps daring founders build legendary technology companies. in Electrical Engineering and Studio Art from Brown University.ĭr. Jepsen was a professor at MIT and co-founded the nonprofit organization "One Laptop per Child," for which she served as CTO and lead architect on design, cost-down, and scale components for the $100 laptops that were successfully shipped to millions of children in the developing world.ĭr. and Head of Display Technologies at Oculus, and she has also held similar roles at Google, Inc. Jepsen served as the Executive Director of Engineering at Facebook, Inc. She has over 200 patents published or issued to her name. Jepsen has been named as one of the 100 most influential people in the world by Time Magazine (“Time 100”), in addition to CNN’s top 10 thinkers in science and technology. She also serves as a Director on the Board of Lear Corporation, a Fortune 150 automotive components supplier.Īs a prolific inventor and entrepreneur, Dr. Jepsen is CEO, Founder and Chair of the Board of Openwater, a San Francisco-based medical laser imaging device technology company. Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan.ĭr. in Finance and Accounting from the Stephen M. He is a Board Observer for GEO Semiconductor, Motiv Power Systems and OneRent, as well as an Advisor for FreightRoll. He began his career as an analyst at Bear, Stearns & Co., where he served in a multi-disciplinary role across technology, media and telecommunications, mergers and acquisitions, and equity and debt capital markets, and subsequently transitioned to Morgan Stanley in Asia. From 2008 to 2011, he served as Vice President of Argyle Street Management, a spin-off from the Goldman Sachs Asian Special Situations Group. Heng served as Principal at investment firm Myriad Asset Management from 2011 to 2015, where he focused on Asian credit and equity, including special situations. He is also the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of COVA Acquisition Corp. Jun Hong Heng is the Founder and Chief Investment Officer of Crescent Cove Advisors, LP (“Crescent Cove”), a technology investment firm focused on working with founders and management teams to build the iconic companies of tomorrow. He is an active philanthropist, recognized in 2022 on the Philanthropy 50 as the 36th largest donor in America. Austin was also a recipient of the Thiel Fellowship, MIT Tech Review Innovators Under 35, and Forbes 30 under 30 alumni. Now 28, Austin has been recognized by Forbes as the world’s youngest self-made billionaire. Austin has set a 100 year vision for Luminar - to save as many as 100 million lives and 100 trillion hours on the road over the next century.Īustin founded Luminar in 2012 at age 17 after previously working on various photonics and optoelectronics projects, architecting a new kind of lidar to enable safe autonomous functionality on cars, trucks, and robo-taxis, with over 100 awarded patents.
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Under Austin’s leadership, Luminar has developed the first lidar and software technology capable of powering production autonomous vehicles, has amassed over 50 commercial partners including the majority of the world’s largest automakers, and went public on the Nasdaq in 2020.
Austin Russell is an inventor, business leader, and self-driving industry pioneer as the Founder and CEO of Luminar Technologies (NASDAQ: LAZR), the global leader in automotive LiDAR hardware and software technology.
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